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Steven Avery Case — Wisconsin Murder Conviction After Exoneration
The Steven Avery case is a Wisconsin homicide in which Avery was convicted in 2007 for murdering photographer Teresa Halbach in 2005, just two years after his exoneration for a wrongful conviction.
The Slender Man Stabbing — Attempted Murder by Two 12-Year-Olds
The Slender Man Stabbing is a 2014 attempted murder case in which two 12-year-old girls stabbed their classmate 19 times in Waukesha, Wisconsin, to become proxies of a fictional internet character.
The Jeffrey Dahmer Case — The Milwaukee Cannibal
The Jeffrey Dahmer case is an American serial-murder case in which Dahmer killed 17 men and boys across Ohio and Wisconsin between 1978 and 1991, involving sexual assault, dismemberment and cannibalism.
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